The Reconstruction Era was when North America fought for the blacks living in the South. African Americans were brought into the united states and held slaves for wealthy American families. They were denied their rights and freedom. Abraham Lincoln started the Civil War and was the first one to stand up for the Negro community. Abraham Lincoln was the one that built the “new south”, although he successfully made a new name for the south, equality was not happening. Blacks were still being deprived from their rights. “white man must and will rule” (39). Blacks had no clue what their limit on equality was. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president in office, he started the Reconstruction of the new era. Lincoln was a poor northerner who did
